Author: Susan Weidman Schneider

Who owns the kitchen? Who decides on the menu, who shops, cooks, invites, serves, cleans up—all these tasks reveal power dynamics around food’s pleasures and perils.

Here is one possible source of succor for people who might need help in creating their families.

Rabbi Barry Freundel, longtime spiritual leader of the Modern Orthodox synagogue Kesher Israel in Washington, D.C., has been arrested on charges of voyeurism.

Teach a woman to fish. Then go to her local restaurant and order the fish.

Here is one woman who has for 10 years taken on an often unrecognized–but enormous–expense for families today.

Let’s hope that very soon the attitudes toward women in Jewish divorce law will seem at least as retro as smoking, and that legal succor will follow. As with marriage equality in secular law, attitudes have to shift for new interpretations of Jewish law to take hold.

We loved hearing from so many Jewish women trailblazers (many Lilith authors among them) in MAKERS on PBS last night—including Alix Kates Shulman, who talked about her classic 1970 “Marriage Agreement.” It still jolts people after all these years!

The shoes on women’s feet would be cartoonish — if only they were in a comic strip.